ABOUT ME

I'm a Polish Visual Artist living and working in SW London since 2006.

The main focus of my practice is an exploration of wild and hidden territories. Adopting organic themes to examine what's misunderstood or repressed. I'm exploring how dislocation affects my relationship with the British landscape. Looking into land ownership and the idea of trespass.

I'm fascinated with haunting shapes observed in green spaces, such as forests, woods or local parks. The common land. Revealing the animism of dry and broken branches as they appear to be in motion, danc-ing, or ready to depart.

Quick brushwork conveys a dream-like world punctuated with urgency and unease. I'm focusing on trees and beliefs about their powers. These stories about the wisdom and strength of Oaks or Hornbeams are important to how we see the world. Even if we don't remember them fully, they are engraved in our in-stincts.

My pallet consists mainly of warm shades of reds, oranges and pinks - reminders of make-up colours, like blush or lipstick. It is my conscious decision to restrict my pallet to 'womanly' colours. A restriction that turned out to be very freeing. The Colour red is loaded with symbolism and meaning. We live in a constant state of emergency - climate change, pandemics, and wars. While painting pictures inspired by beautiful nature, feeling the stink of the wastewater pumped into the oceans. Nature is beautiful, we love this landscape but something is very wrong.

I'm a runner. I'm constantly inspired by what our bodies are able to do. I spend lots of hours on my feet - running or walking, observing. When I feel stuck; I go for a run. The most amazing experiences were runs done at night time in Richmond Park or Wimbledon Common. It feels like playing hide and seek with deer, popping up and waiting for me to chase them. It can be a little scary, but also mind altering, to enter their world, to encounter nature differently. Your sense of perspective is altered. My brain goes wild before settling in, senses enter a different mode. You notice the textures and depth of colours differently at night.

Finding yourself tangled in the undergrowth changes your perception of texture. Scratched, lost and only a human.

EDUCATION, AWARDS, GRANTS & MEMBERSHIPS

- SMALL WORKS, curatorial project and collaboration with artist Monica Perez Vega

- Turps Correspondence Course 2023/24

- Member of Working Class Creative Database since 2020

- Artist Development bursary from a-n Artists Information Company, 2018

- The Eaton Fund grant for publication of exhibition catalogue, 2018

- ASC Development grant, 2017

- Grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture, Warsaw, Poland, 2005

- MFA from Painting Department of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, 2004

- a-n membership since 2016

- From 2016 co-founder of Inland Project, experimental platform for artists and writers, portable exhibition in the zine format

- Artists Studio Company (ASC) member since 2008

SELECTED PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS

2024

- By the means at hand, by Vlatka Horvat, Croatian Pavilion, Venice

- England is a Forest, SLUICE [VERNACULAR], art expo 2024, The Minories, Colchester

- Bury my songs, Group Exhibition at Terrace Gallery, London

2023

- Works on Paper 5, Blue Shop Gallery, online

- Unknown Friends, Working Class Creatives Database Group exhibition, Hypha Studios,, Farringdon, London

- The Bond Is Always By Scent, ASC Project Space, London

2022

- Pocket Thicket collaboration with artist Monica Perez Vega, ASC Project Space, London

- Weary Harold, ASC Gallery, London

2021

- A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings

- Salon 21, Photofusion Gallery, London

- Looks Like It’s Gunna Rain, Working Class Creatives Database Group exhibition, Motion Sickness Gallery, Cambridge

2020

- The Worshipful Company of Painter - Stainers, Online Exhibition & Art Sale, Online

- Centrala online – artist talk and virtual studio visit, Online

2019

- To whom the flesh / My flesh / Still connects me, Inland Project for Art Licks Weekend, The Poetry Society, London

- Residue, research residency and exhibition at Gaff project space, Walhamstow, London

2018

- 13, two person exhibition, ASC Brixton Gallery, London

- 40 Celsius, ASC Croydon Gallery, London

- The irresistible rituals of dust, solo show, no format Gallery, London

- Juggling Lilith’s crumbs, collaboration with artist Flora Bradwell, APT Gallery, Inland Project

for Deptford X, London

- Beep Painting biennale, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales

2017

- PIAF, Peckham International Art Fair, London

- More Stuff, Kentish Town, London

- 31 Celsius, ASC Gallery, London

- Neither - Inland Project, exhibition and workshops: Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, APT Gallery

London, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London, Devil’s Dyke Network, Fabrica, Brighton

2016

- Sunday Times Watercolor Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

- Art Licks Weekend, ASC Studios, London

- A-eight. Exhibition, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham

- The Columbia Threadneedle prize, Mall Galleries, London

2014

- MOTHERLAND, Solo Show, A.S.C. Window Space, London

2008

- Thickness, Westminster Reference Library, London

2007

- StARTrek: The Next Generation, Kyo Art Gallery, Viterbo

2005

- Nachleben, WAA Gallery, Warsaw,

- Preview Berlin - Art Fair, Berlin

- La mossa delle idee 2, Sala Santa Rita, Rome

2004

- Test Card: Latest In Polish Video, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków

- Sylwia Narbutt, MFA Graduation exhibition, Program Gallery, Warsaw

- La mossa delle idee, Cinema Alfieri Atelier, FlorenceVideo Zoom, Pala- zzo San Carluccio, Viterbo